Baby Gloom

The danger to civilization, of course, has never been a low birthrate. That’s a smokescreen, and a typically ghoulish one. The real danger is that people are dying from these supposedly pronatalist policies. The GOP is obsessed with America’s falling birthrate, but by alienating people who want to be parents—and denigrating those who don’t—they’re transforming their fear into a self-fulfilling prophecy.by Megan BurbankA few months ago, a friend and I went to s